Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents — often dressed in plainclothes — are now arresting immigrants at courthouses nationwide, sometimes moments after their hearings end. Why it matters: The courthouse crackdown is part of a sweeping Trump administration effort to fast-track removals and increase the number of deportations this year — a strategy that's dramatically expanding who gets targeted and how.

For a third consecutive day, plainclothes immigration officers arrested individuals who showed up for their hearings at immigration court in southwest Houston.

The motion is part of a lawsuit challenging the administration's expansion of the process which allows the government to quickly expel migrants.